I'd be curious how the performance compares to this Rust jq clone:
cargo install --locked jaq
(you might also be able to add RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" to enable optimizations for your specific CPU family)
"cargo install" is an underrated feature of Rust for exactly the kind of use case described in the article. Because it builds the tools from source, you can opt into platform-specific features/instructions that often aren't included in binaries built for compatibility with older CPUs. And no need to clone the repo or figure out how to build it; you get that for free.
jaq[1] and yq[2] are my go-to options anytime I'm using jq and need a quick and easy performance boost.